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Jun 04, 2021ssjhung rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The book won the €100,000 Dublin literary award on May 20, 2021
Jan 25, 2021Chapel_Hill_KrystalB rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Listening to this novel was a bumpy ride for me. Loved it, hated it. Loved it, hated it. Firstly, yes- it is beautifully written, well planned, exquisitely layered (heartbreaking and infuriating stories within stories), deserving of the…
Nov 16, 2020m0mmyl00 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A blended family — a man plus his 10-year-old son and woman plus her 5-year-old daughter — set out on a cross-country road trip: he, to record the sounds of “Apacheria,” the Apache Indians’ historical land, and she to record the sounds of…
Oct 16, 2020uncommonreader rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
In this mishmash of a novel, it is as if the author could not decide what she was doing. Is this auto fiction? A post-modern exercise? Why did she change the narrator to an unconvincing child? Why place such emphasis on her marriage…
Sep 07, 2020StoriedLife rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
After an extremely promising start, Luiselli surrenders all her hard work to an unconvincing 10-year-old narrator and relies on the interjection of chapters of a fictional other work to present a nightmarish vision of the dilemma of border…
Jul 22, 2020OIPgayle rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I thought this book was beautiful, poetic and sometimes magical. I think I read a different book than some of these commenters.
Apr 09, 2020CALS_Lee rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Modernist fiction and political activism have been brought together to produce Lost Children Archive. Luiselli is the daughter of a Mexican ambassador. When the southern border crisis grew around 2014 or so, Luiselli admirably volunteered…
Mar 24, 2020msdelrios rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
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Mar 14, 2020
Barack Obama recommendation
Feb 07, 2020
I don't know what to say but perhaps the times we live in have allowed us to expect this sorry mess to be described as a novel. I'll carry on trying but it seems to be painting by numbers mixed with some bizarre notion of profundity. I…
Feb 06, 2020
This book was submitted for consideration for the 2019 Southwest Books of the Year list in the Fiction category!
Jan 13, 2020
NYT 2019 Top 10
Dec 30, 2019njon38 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Inspired by the experiences of desperate children crossing the desert to get to US and the history of the Apache warriors making their last stand, framed by a fictionalized version of a road trip this Mexican born writer took from New…
Nov 24, 2019
Top 10 Books of 2019 New York Times The Mexican author’s third novel — her first to be written in English — unfolds against a backdrop of crisis: of children crossing borders, facing death, being detained, being deported unaccompanied by…
Nov 06, 2019Portladia rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Oh, spare me. Way too wordy.
Nov 04, 2019EljayJohnson rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
A misguided mess. I only rated it this high because there were some moments of insight and clarity amidst the folly. A timely book about migration - told through the story of a disintegrating family on a long road trip from NYC to…
Sep 07, 2019readmorebooks rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I'll admit that at first I did not think I would like the book. No one has a name. The mother just calls her children the boy and the girl. Even her husband is just the husband. But somehow it pulled me in and I am very glad I stayed with…
Aug 26, 2019lukasevansherman rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This 2019 novel is very much a novel of the moment. I'd say everyone should sent a copy to the White House, but I don't think anyone there reads novels. The Mexican-born Luiselli also wrote the non-fiction book "Tell Me How It…
Jun 20, 2019mclarjh rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Very good writing; easy to read; multiple stories about life and loss.
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May 22, 2019jr3083 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a very clever, self-aware book that echoes influences as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and David Bowie’ Space Oddity. There is a long, twenty-page sentence near the end of the…